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(EPA). This research employed an embedded comparative case study design using the comparison of two Big Box firms, Walmart … indicate Walmart adheres to the structural models developed using contingency theory principles and incurs more impacts from …
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Accumulation is a fundamental process in dynamic systems: inventory accumulates production less shipments; the national … of simple stock–flow systems. In a series of experiments we demonstrate that poor understanding of accumulation, termed … phenomenon that appears to be rooted in failure to appreciate the most basic principles of accumulation, leading to the use of …
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Warshaw stock exchanges, evaluate efficiency of small capitalization stock portfolios. The first part of paper provides an … conclusions of the acceptability of the hypotheses are presented. This research reveals that small capitalization stock portfolios … achieve greater efficiency compared with large capitalization stock portfolios and the main stock market index in stock market …
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This paper maps the network of interlocking directorships formed by the boards of the top 50 financial and 200 non-financial companies in Ireland. The Irish network is compared with those in ten countries, based on the same sample size and selection criteria as used in this paper, using the...
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This study investigates the distribution of ultimate control and ownership rights and their impact on corporate performance in a post-privatization economy with an institutionally weak market and extremely high private benefits of control. Russia provides a unique setting to examine ultimate...
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investigation of individual resistance to IT change.Change management theory and attitude-behavior connections provide a framework … resistance to information technology change facilitated the creation of a detailed social architecture factor model. Subsequently …, a Resistance to Change Index (RTCI) was created, enabling estimations of the intensity of resistance an individual is …
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This paper presents an exploratory study of the consumption practices of UK-based young Iranians. Based on a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observation we provide an insight into the identity-constituting meanings associated with consumption practices. We illustrate how...
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resistance to these biocides. The renewed global financing of malaria control makes research into how to effectively surmount … problem of insecticide resistance in malaria control, and to understand how different models of mosquito evolution can affect … our policy prescriptions for dealing with the problem of insecticide resistance. I identify specific details of the …
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While a number of transition countries have been able to make significant progress with macroeconomic stabilization, little is being done to understand and to address the horrendous difficulties and barriers that attend the process of transition at the level of the enterprise. Not knowing what...
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In building an organisation's innovation capacity, managers have to be aware of barriers to learning and have an understanding of the importance of unlearning old ways. Unlearning is emerging as an important element of change and innovation in organisations. As the pace of change continues to...
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